Welcome to the Wiki page of the course '''Search Engines, WS 2009 / 2010'''. Lecturer: [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/bast|Hannah Bast]]. Tutorials: [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/celikik|Marjan Celikik]]. Course web page: [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/teaching/winter-term-2009-2010/suchmaschinen-vorlesung|click here]].

Here are PDFs of the slides of the lectures so far: [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-1.pdf|Lecture 1]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-2.pdf|Lecture 2]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-3.pdf|Lecture 3]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-4.pdf|Lecture 4]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-5.pdf|Lecture 5]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-6.pdf|Lecture 6]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/lecture-7.pdf|Lecture 7]].

Here are .lpd files of the recordings of the lectures so far (except Lecture 2, where we had problems with the microphone): [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-1.lpd|Recording Lecture 1]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-3.lpd|Recording Lecture 3]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-4.lpd|Recording Lecture 4]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-5.lpd|Recording Lecture 5 (no audio)]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-6.lpd|Recording Lecture 6 (with audio for a change)]], [[http://vulcano.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/lecturnity/lecture-7.avi|Recording Lecture 7 (AVI)]].

Here are PDFs of the exercise sheets so far: [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-1.pdf|Exercise Sheet 1]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-2.pdf|Exercise Sheet 2]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-3.pdf|Exercise Sheet 3]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-4.pdf|Exercise Sheet 4]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-5.pdf|Exercise Sheet 5]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-6.pdf|Exercise Sheet 6]], [[attachment:SearchEnginesWS0910/exercise-7.pdf|Exercise Sheet 7]].

Here are your solutions and comments on the previous exercise sheets: [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet1|Solutions and Comments 1]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet2|Solutions and Comments 2]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet3|Solutions and Comments 3]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet4|Solutions and Comments 4]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet5|Solutions and Comments 5]], [[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet6|Solutions and Comments 6]].

= Exercise Sheet 6 =

The recordings of all lectures are now available, see above. Lecture 2 is missing because we had technical problems there. To play the Lecturnity recordings (.lpd files) you need the [[http://www.lecturnity.de/de/download/lecturnity-player|Lecturnity Player, which you can download here]]. I put the Camtasia recordings as .avi files, which you can play with any ordinary video player; I would recommend [[http://www.videolan.org/vlc|VLC]].

[[SearchEnginesWS0910/Rules|Here are the rules for the exercises as explained in Lecture 2]].

[[SearchEnginesWS0910/ExerciseSheet7|Here you can upload your solutions for Exercise Sheet 7]].

== Questions or comments below this line, most recent on top please ==

Yes the backend is also a/ the http server. '''Johannes 2009-12-06T2047L'''

Hi Johannes, how do you communicate with the backend then (the program that provides the contents for the table)? Is that also part of your java server, that is, does it play the role of a web server and a backend simultaneously? That would be one way of doing it, too. '''Hannah 6Dec09 16:49'''

Just let your java server provide the css, js and html too. Works for me and is easy to do in java. '''Johannes 2009-12-06T1114L'''

I didn't know that jQuery's ''find'' does not work on Internet Explorer, and I am actually surprised to hear that. It somewhat shatters my previous belief that jQuery just works on any of the major browsers (all of which implement JavaScript a little differently, which makes the use of raw JavaScript so cumbersome). I will try to find(!) out why that is so. Sorry, if you had trouble because of this, but well, that's (web application writing) life. '''Hannah 6Dec09 0:26'''

In the lecture, all the files prefix-search.html, prefix-search.js, prefix-search.css, and prefix-search.php were served by an Apache web sever running on one and the same machine ''stromboli.informatik.uni-freiburg.de''. The $.(get) in the prefix-search.js was sending the query to the prefix-search.php. As Björn pointed out, Firefox asks that the html (which is what the user loads by typing the URL or clicking a link, and which in turn loads the js) be served via port 80 by a machine on the same domain as the prefix-search.php. For our machine ''domain'' refers to ''uni-freiburg.de'', that is, the php could have been located on any other machine with a URL ending in ''uni-freiburg.de'', too. Otherwise, you get a so-called ''cross-scripting'' error. This is *not* part of the JavaScript standard, however, and different browsers implement it differently. This is also what Manuela found. I leave it to you how you get around the cross-scripting problem. The preferred solution is to have all files served by web servers on machine on the same domain, as just explained. If you find other solutions that work, that is also fine, but please explain what led you to this solution, just like Manuela did below. '''Hannah 06Dec09 0:22'''

From what a fellow student told me in the lecture (thanks, alex) the problem with GETing the javascript comes from the fact that (for security issues) the HttpXmlRequest is only allowed be send to a ressource on the same domain that you got the HTML from. Firefox turns it into an OPTIONS request. This might also be the reason why it worked in the lecture where the html and the php were both served by the same apache, but does not work if your html is not on the apache, too (Also explains the observations posted below). Personally, I'm  planning on letting my webserver provide all, the html, css, js (by letting it return files from a subfolder depending on the path in the GET request) and the xml if the GET request does not start with a prefix for that folder. Otherwise it should work if you do it just as we did in the lecture and have HTML (+ css + js) and PHP in your apache's folder. I haven't started yet but I can let you know if this works for me. Anyway, IF it does, credit goes to Alexander Gutjahr who told about this javascript issue, of course. '''Björn 05Dec 22:12'''

I'm a bit confused about the exercise. For exercise 1 I extended the Java webserver from exercise sheet 2 with the prefix search of the last exercise sheet. The webserver returns the results of the prefix search as a XML document. Should I have used an webserver like apache? But I also had some problems with sending the JQuery request to the server. The webserver runs on port 80. I started with Firefox. Firefox sends an OPTIONS request to the server and so the JQuery get-function doesn't work. The same happend as I used Google Chrome. Because the Java webserver can't handle PHP I can't do it like in the lecture. So I tried Internet Explorer and this browser sends a GET request by using the JQuery get-function. I assumed I can follow with the exercise, but though I did it like in the lecture, nothing happend. I used the alert-function to check that I really get the XML document from the server (and I got it). Now I know, that the find-function doesn't work with Internet Explorer. After this I tried Safari. Safari sends a GET-request and also the find-function works. Now I can follow and build the tables like described on the exercise sheet. Is it OK to go on like that? '''Manuela 05Dec09 19:24'''

Hi Alex, can you be more specific about what exactly did not work for you and what you had to do to make it work? In particular, what do you mean by "the server directory"? Do you mean apache's document root? Then where have your files been before? In a subdirectory of the root? And what do you mean by a GET request being turned into an OPTIONS request, and how did you arrive at the conclusion that this is what happens? It should not matter if the .php file is in a different directory than the .js file. My feeling is that your problem lies elsewhere, but it's hard to tell from the information you gave so far. '''Hannah 05Dec09 18:02'''

@whom it may concern: for me the access-rights stuff did not work exactly as in the lecture - i had to move the whole site (.html .js ...) into the server directory. Maybe it's new to firefox 3.5 but i could not access any file on the server from a .js not being in the server directory - it always turned my GET-Requests into OPTIONS-Requests and nothing was returned - so the php-solution does not seem to work, even if my server was able to execute php. Were we supposed to do it like this anyway or is it completely wrong this way?..  '''alex 5Dec09 17:56'''

Ok, the recording of Lecture 7 is now available as AVI. But beware, it's quite big: around 300 MB. '''Hannah 3Dec09 22:46'''

To play the .camrec recording you need the full Camtasia Studio (you can download a 30-day test version if you want). I will soon upload an .avi version instead. '''Hannah 3Dec09 21:56'''

For your reference and convenience, here is a [[attachment:prefix-search.tar|tar archive of the files which we wrote together in Lecture 7 (prefix-search.html, prefix-search.css, prefix-search.js, prefix-search.php)]]. '''Hannah 3Dec09 21:35'''